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Honolulu Scottish Rite is now offering public parking in Makiki! There are over 40 stalls available hourly and overnight. See the parking machine on site for details.

Was Jesus an Operative Mason?
by Midnight Freemason Contributor
Steven L. Harrison, 33°, FMLR

Coming to Nazareth during his ministry, Jesus preached just as he had been doing throughout the countryside. In other places he had drawn enthusiastic crowds. In this his hometown, however, people in the crowd became derisive. They recognized him to be one of their own, a "common" tradesman, and therefore not someone who should be taken seriously as a teacher or prophet. "Is not this," they asked, "the carpenter?"

This passage is where we learn Jesus, like his earthly father Joseph, was a carpenter, according to contemporary Bible translations. Both Mark 6:3 and Matthew 13:55 give an account of the incident using the Greek word "tektōn" to refer to Jesus' profession.

"Is not this the carpenter ["ho tektōn"], the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" ~Mark 6:3 (KJV)
"Is not this the carpenter's son ["ho tou tektōnos huios"]? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?" ~Matthew 13:55 (KJV)
The word "tekton," however, does not directly translate as "carpenter." It more accurately means "builder" or "craftsman," a designation which, in fact, leaves Jesus' true profession in doubt.

A carpenter would fit in the category of builder or craftsman, and that may well have been what Jesus did. He would not have built homes in an area where trees were scarce, but would have made furniture, doors and tools, such as plows.

However, the most dominant profession around Nazareth, where Jesus grew up and would have practiced his trade, was stone masonry. The area was rich in stone with several quarries, including one in the heart of Nazareth. Virtually all buildings were made of stone, and the demand for stone masons would have been high.

During the time Jesus would have worked as a craftsman, the Romans expanded the small town of Sepphoris into a city for Jewish aristocrats who supported Rome. True, the venture would have required carpenters, but the greatest demand would have been for masons. Sepphoris (today Zippori) was less than four miles from Jesus' home and, regardless of his craft, it is likely he worked on the project.

We’ll never know for sure since the broad definition of "tekton" could refer to a number of professions. But taken in context and in light of the more likely profession of the tradesmen in Nazareth in that era, it could be that Jesus was not a carpenter, but an operative mason.

~SLH

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The Honolulu Scottish Rite
On October 20, 1874, the Scottish Rite was established in the Hawaiian Islands by Prince Consort John Owen Dominis and King Kalakaua, the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. In 1923, the cornerstone of the Honolulu Scottish Rite Cathedral was laid by Lester Petrie (former Honolulu Mayor), becoming the home of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Its members have included Prince of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku II; Member of the House of Nobles and Parker Ranch Estate, Samuel Kamuela Parker; Former Mayor of Honolulu, Lester Petrie; Former Governor of Hawaii, Wallace Farrington; Former Head Master of Kamehameha Schools, Harold Kent; Legendary Waterman, Duke Kahanamoku; The Namesake of the University of Hawaii School of Law, William S. Richardson and more.

Masonry is useful to all men: to the learned because it affords them the opportunity of exercising their talents upon subject eminently worthy of their attention; to the illiterate, because it offers them important instruction; to the young, because it presents them with salutary precepts and good examples, and accustoms them to reflect on the proper mode of living; to the man of the world, whom it furnishes with noble and useful recreation; to the traveler, whom it enables to find friends and brothers in countries where else he would be isolated and solitary; to the worthy man in misfortune, to whom it gives assistance; to the afflicted, on whom it lavishes consolation; to the charitable man whom it enables to do more good, by uniting with those who are charitable like himself; and to all who have souls capable of appreciating its importance, and of enjoying the charms of a friendship founded on the same principles of religion, morality, and philanthropy.

Albert Pike 33° Sovereign Grand Commander
Big Creek, Arkansas
1865

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